Thermodynamic Figure Comparing the Temperature of Ant Head with and without Hairs. (IMAGE)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Thermodynamic Figure Comparing the Temperature of Ant Head with and without Hairs.

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The hair coating helps reduce body temperature substantially (via enhanced reflection of solar radiation and enhanced thermal radiation).

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Norman Nan Shi and Nanfang Yu, Columbia Engineering

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